Category Archives: Careers

Apparently there’s a word for it. I did it once, when I went to work at a small (and doomed) startup company in Cambridge, back in the tail end of 1997. I did it again four and a bit years … Continue reading →

Someone, somewhere, has been viewing my LinkedIn profile. I know this, see, because I’ve had a couple of calls and emails from various recruitment agencies, and I’ve seen that recruitment ‘specialists’ have left their footprints all over LinkedIn. One of … Continue reading →

I know a lot of failed writers and editors—and pilots and athletes and actors and physicians. They’re all working in labs. Science! A long time ago, I didn’t know what I wanted to be when I grew up. We had … Continue reading →